Dr. Jacqueline Bussie is Associate professor of Religion at Capital University.  Bussie's first book, The Laughter of the Oppressed (2007), on which she will lecture on March 23, won the national Trinity Prize for promising new writers of religion. Her research and teaching interests include Problem of Evil studies, Christian Ethics, religion and literature, faith and popular culture, and service-learning.  In the last two years, she has taken students to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and South Africa on service-learning trips.  Her favorite pasttimes include traveling, reading, getting to know her students, taking ballroom dance classes with her husband, running, and of course, laughing.

Dr. Bussie will have copies of her award winning book "Laughter of the Oppressed" available for purchase and signing.

An excerpt from "Laughter of the Oppressed": "My work began with a simple question prompted by Dietrich Bonhoeffer's reflections on standing in solidarity with the oppressed: Where is the theological consideration of laughter 'from below,' 'from the perspective of the outcast, the mistreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled – in short, from the perspective of those who suffer'?"

Dessert and coffee is provided. Admission is free and open to the public. All are welcome!